Bybit Adds 1,000+ US Stocks and ETFs, Settled in USDC
Bybit opened trading in over 1,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs on Oct. 12, 2026, funded in USDC and executed through Alpaca. No volume or fee data was disclosed.
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Shitij GuptaBybit opened trading in over 1,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs on Oct. 12, 2026, funded in USDC and executed through Alpaca. No volume or fee data was disclosed.
OneKey cut off CryptoBilis as a reseller and is offering free hardware wallet replacements to anyone who bought a device there since March 1, 2026.
The US Dollar Index reached an 18-month high near 102.56 as Bitcoin traded around $83,000. Futures price an 87% chance of a December Fed hike.
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Ripple-backed Evernorth began trading on Nasdaq as XRPN after completing its SPAC merger, entering public markets with approximately 473 million XRP and $300 million in gross cash proceeds.
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ICP rallied sharply as trading activity increased and investors assessed DFINITY’s Cloud Engines plan, which would direct 20% of enterprise revenue toward ICP purchases and burns.
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Derive's governance forum carries a proposal to fund a US-regulated derivatives venue. The document sets no spending figure, no launch date or named regulator.
NEXTPredict paid $12,000 for 3 million Kalshi contracts at $0.004 that pay $3 million if JFK cancels over half its flights on October 21.
Ledger confirmed that a device linked to recent losses carried an unauthorized hardware implant, and all confirmed cases trace back to reseller CryptoBilis.
Strategy bought 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million and repurchased $192.4 million of STRC in the same week, spending nearly nine times more on the buyback.
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Bitquery counted 4.5 million Solana wallets dusted by lookalike addresses over 11 months. Here's how the trick works and what to check before you send.
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Starknet’s STRK token climbed 322% in roughly four weeks, far outpacing Bitcoin and Ether, as StarkWare advocates for an independent Layer 1 and a quantum-resistant roadmap.
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The Sui Foundation is investing $30 million in DATA Network. The AI data protocol's Trace registry will run natively on Sui, and its own chain will be retired.
U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs lost $542.1 million in the week ended October 9, while Solana funds ended a 14-week inflow streak and Bitcoin ETFs shed $681.1 million.
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Papertrade says it is restricting exposure onchain and through relayers after manipulation allegations, but the specific limits are not yet public.
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Avalanche founder Emin Gün Sirer says AI will find code bugs before ECDSA breaks, and names Ripple's code. He did not identify a specific XRP Ledger flaw.
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TOKEN2049 is expanding to the US with its first New York conference on June 16-17, 2027. The event is expected to draw 15,000 attendees, with tickets priced from $599.
Twelve months after a record $19 billion liquidation day, the anniversary flush was one-nineteenth the size, and leverage has not returned.
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Crypto’s biggest week kicks off as TOKEN2049 Singapore returns on 7-8 October, convening 25,000 attendees from 160 countries with hundreds of side-events to light up the city
Tron's post-quantum signatures are live on the Nile testnet with Falcon-512 and ML-DSA-44. Mainnet still needs governance approval and security testing.
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Meanwhile raised $37.5 million led by Bain Capital Crypto for its bitcoin-denominated life policies, which pay a death benefit in BTC outside the US.
Aero launches October 21, 2026 across seven chains. AERO converts one for one and VELO about 0.044. Coinbase migrates both from November 2 to 4.
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The CFTC proposes defining event contracts as swaps while excluding casino-style gambling, effective on publication. Comments will follow.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US would probably seize $1 billion of Iran-linked crypto this week. No tokens, addresses or venues were named.
New York's attorney general secured up to $35 million from former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky and a lifetime industry ban, but both payments are conditional.
